Operations and Integration Lead

Transformations Community•San Francisco, CA

1d•$60,000 - $80,000•Remote

About The Position

The Transformations Community (TC) is a global network of researchers, practitioners, facilitators, and changemakers focused on social, ecological, technological, and institutional change. TC facilitates learning about transformation through conferences, inquiry initiatives, communities of practice, and collaborative projects. The organization is entering an active 2026–2027 cycle leading toward an October 2027 gathering in Spain. TC is a small, distributed, and relational organization that needs someone to help manage its operating threads, ensuring clarity, continuity, and follow-through without overbuilding systems. This is an integrator role, distinct from a conventional executive assistant, generic operations role, or heavy project management role, and is best suited for individuals with experience in mission-driven, research-oriented, nonprofit, sustainability, systems-change, and/or field-building environments.

Requirements

Substantial experience in operations, coordination, chief-of-staff, project or program operations, research center management, nonprofit operations, or mission-driven organizational support.
Experience supporting a founder, executive director, or small senior team.
Comfort working in situations where priorities are real but not always fully defined.
Follow-through across multiple workstreams.
Systems judgment, with the ability to build light structures that people actually use.
Decision-preparation skills and clear written communication.
Relational tact in small and distributed teams.
Understanding of TC’s purpose to build structures that support the work (subject-matter expertise in sustainability transformations not required).

Nice To Haves

Experience in research, sustainability, systems change, field-building, nonprofits, and/or mission-driven organizations is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Help the organization hold its operating threads: what is active, who owns it, what has been decided, what is stuck, what needs follow-up, and what can move next.
Create clarity, continuity, and follow-through without overbuilding systems.
Work closely with TC’s Executive Director, conference lead, communications implementer, web/technical support, and inquiry leads.
Help TC operate with more shared visibility and less reliance on memory and ad hoc follow-up.
Turn priorities, meetings, relationships, and ideas into clear next steps and decision points.
Maintain a lightweight operating backbone for TC.
Make active workstreams easier to see.
Help important meetings and conversations produce usable next steps.
Prepare decision points by clarifying options, timing, and next actions.
Support clearer handoffs.
Make timelines, dependencies, and communications needs more visible.
Use AI tools actively and experimentally for task extraction, decision logging, document retrieval, and workflow support.
Help create a simple weekly operating rhythm that keeps the team aligned.
In the first 1–2 weeks, meet key team members, review core materials, map active workstreams, and create a first rough operating picture.
Establish a working rhythm for tracking active work and follow-ups within 30 days.
Stabilize the operating system, clarify conference dependencies, ease handoffs, and reduce reliance on informal memory within 60–90 days.
Ensure TC has a clearer view of active work, follow-ups, and risks after several months.
Ensure important meetings generate follow-through.
Connect conference, communications, and inquiry work more smoothly.
Ensure the team has a simple operating rhythm.
Make major decisions and follow-ups easier to find.
Make conference dependencies visible earlier.
Provide clearer upstream inputs for communications.
Reduce the Executive Director's responsibility for remembering every thread.
Enable TC to see potential problems before they arise.